Mediation can help you to put disagreements about the present and past behind you so you can focus on the future.
Mediation is a process that helps people to communicate freely so they can overcome a disagreement that prevents them from moving on with their lives.
It’s a voluntary process reliant on the consent of the participants from start to finish.
At the end of a successful mediation, everyone will consent to and sign a document called a “settlement agreement”. That document sets out how the dispute has been resolved and put at an end, so everyone can put the past behind them, enabling them to focus on their present and future.
Mediation is also a confidential process. Nothing said or decided within mediation can be communicated or used outside the process unless everyone agrees. It has to be kept confidential from court proceedings and documents too. That’s because anything communicated in mediation is “without prejudice”. In basic terms this means participants in mediation are not committed to anything they communicate in the mediation process, except a settlement agreement. Any fact revealed, any offer made or rejected, any opinion given – none of it can be mentioned in court documents or proceedings.
Sometimes people have lawyers, colleagues, friends and/or family members with them to help them with mediation, or merely to provide support.
It can be conducted in-person, via video call, on the phone, or even by text, email and letter.
We can host conversations with everyone sat together or we can shuttle between participants, so people in disagreement don’t even have to see or hear each other.
On request and agreement from all the participants we can facilitate any reasonable adjustments to the entire mediation process to make it as comfortable for all participants as possible.
It’s an incredibly flexible process that can incorporate numerous abilities, preferences or characteristics that the participants believe need to be accommodated to enable full participation. Browse this website to discover more.